I'm having trouble with ANSI stuff (Link primarily) using my favorite PC
terminal emulator: Telix.  It has both "ANSI-BBS" and "VT102" emulations,
but Link trashes the first screen with either of them to the point of being
unusable.    Is there another public domain communications program (or
commercial if it's the only way) that WILL work with Link?  Other places I
dial into work fine with ANSI screen controls.  In fact, they work find in
all the ways I've embedded them into my system prompts and batch files.  Can
anyone help?
Thanks -- Tim KT8K

5 responses total.

What is "Link"?

Lynx, maybe?

Um.  If that's it, here's something to try: stop using 8N (databits/parity)
and try 7E or possibly 7S.  But it is possible that it is the emulation;
you didn't really say what *kind* of messing-up you get.

Yeah -- Lynx, that's it ...  And I'm running 7O, not 8N.  I didn't know 
this thing would take anything else (but I haven't checked in quite a few
years ... I'm still running basically the way I did when I got on mnet a
few months after Mike Myers set it up.  I just kind-of moved over here 
with the friendly people I'd met on mnet ...)   The messing up that I
get is things misplaced on the screen, lines overwriting lines, etc.  
I'll give it another try and get more details.  Is lynx using a more
advanced ANSI command set than maybe my software supports?  (I wasn't
aware that the ANSI screen control commands had changed in aeons!)

Hmmm.  Well, that did it.  Lynx seems to be working just fine now - no 
problems at all.  I can only assume that entering this item was enough to
scare Murphy out of my equipment.  Some times thats what it takes.  In any
case everything is fine so, as Gilda used to say (what was the name of that
crazy character she did who always got some critical fact wrong) "Never mind."

Thanks for the help. -- Tim

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